Simulation of surfactant effect on growth of metal homoexpitaxial Sb－Ag/Ag(111)

doi:10.1088/1674-1056/19/6/066801

Abstract A kinetic Monte Carlo simulation is performed in order to study the effect of Sb atoms as a surfactant on the growth of Ag on Ag(111). In our model the repulsive mechanism in which the surfactant Sb atoms repel diffusing Ag adatoms, and the exchange mechanism between Ag and Sb atoms, are considered. Our simulations show that the effects of Sb atoms for Ag/Ag(111) growth system are mainly to increase the chances for Ag atoms to overcome the Ehrlich--Schwoebel barrier both in the interlayer growth and along the edge diffusion. The influence of the coverage of Sb atoms and substrate temperature on the growth of Ag/Sb/Ag(111) is discussed.

Keywords: surfactant repulsive exchange Monte Carlo simulation

Received: 01 September 2009
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PACS:	68.43.De	(Statistical mechanics of adsorbates)
	68.55.A-	(Nucleation and growth)
	61.43.Bn	(Structural modeling: serial-addition models, computer simulation)
	68.35.B-	(Structure of clean surfaces (and surface reconstruction))

Fund: Project supported by the Natural Science Foundation for Young Scientists of Zhejiang Province of China (Grant No.~RC02069).

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Wu Li-Li(吴黎黎) and Wu Feng-Min(吴锋民) Simulation of surfactant effect on growth of metal homoexpitaxial Sb－Ag/Ag(111) 2010 Chin. Phys. B 19 066801

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